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6-81-1813. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Eligibility.
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6-81-1813. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Eligibility.
(a)(1) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall administer the Community Match Rural Physician Recruitment Program.
(2)(A) Interested rural communities may apply to the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board to participate in the program as a qualified rural community.
(B) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall approve a designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community to assist the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board in matters relating to any community match contracts entered into by the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board and the qualified rural community.
(b) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, in conjunction with a qualified rural community, may grant community match income incentives to applicants, each incentive being expressly made subject to § 6-81-1814, if it finds that:
(1) The applicant is a graduate of:
(A) An accredited osteopathic medical school in the United States; or
(B) A foreign medical school if the applicant:
(i) Was a resident of Arkansas and citizen of the United States prior to enrollment in the foreign medical school; and
(ii) Has been licensed by the Arkansas State Medical Board;
(2) The applicant satisfies one (1) of the following criteria:
(A) He or she is enrolled in a residency or other training program in an area of primary care medicine; or
(B) No more than two (2) years before the date of the application, he or she completed a residency or other training program in an area of primary care medic
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-81-1813
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6-81-1813. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Eligibility.
(a)(1) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall administer the Community Match Rural Physician Recruitment Program.
(2)(A) Interested rural communities may apply to the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board to participate in the program as a qualified rural community.
(B) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board shall approve a designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community to assist the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board in matters relating to any community match contracts entered into by the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board and the qualified rural community.
(b) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, in conjunction with a qualified rural community, may grant community match income incentives to applicants, each incentive being expressly made subject to § 6-81-1814, if it finds that:
(1) The applicant is a graduate of:
(A) An accredited osteopathic medical school in the United States; or
(B) A foreign medical school if the applicant:
(i) Was a resident of Arkansas and citizen of the United States prior to enrollment in the foreign medical school; and
(ii) Has been licensed by the Arkansas State Medical Board;
(2) The applicant satisfies one (1) of the following criteria:
(A) He or she is enrolled in a residency or other training program in an area of primary care medicine; or
(B) No more than two (2) years before the date of the application, he or she completed a residency or other training program in an area of primary care medicine;
(3) The applicant desires to practice medicine in the qualified rural community; and
(4) The designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community approve the applicant.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
6-81-1814. Medical school graduates — Community match contract — Obligations and conditions.
(a)(1) The Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board and the qualified rural community shall enter a joint community match income incentive contract with the applicant.
(2) The form of the community match income incentive contract shall be approved by the Attorney General and shall be signed by the Chair of the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, the Secretary of the Osteopathic Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board, the designated representative or representatives of the qualified rural community, and the applicant.
(b) Each applicant to whom a community match income incentive is granted by the board shall execute a written contract that shall incorporate the following obligations and conditions:
(1)(A) The recipient of a community match income incentive shall bindingly contract that he or she shall practice primary care medicine full time in the contracting qualified rural community for a period of four (4) years.
(B)(i) The recipient shall receive the community match income incentive funds according to a disbursement schedule acceptable to the board, the qualified rural community, and the recipient as set forth in writing in the community match contract.
(ii) For each three-month period of full-time medical practice by the recipient, according to the terms of the community match contract, the board and the qualified rural community shall award one-fourth (¼) of the income incentive for the year of service;
(2)(A) If any recipient does not begin or ceases the full-time practice of medicine in breach of the community match income incentive contract or otherwise breaches the communit
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-81-1814
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